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[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

America is the largest consumer state on planet earth. A huge amount of foreign economies rely heavily on export to the United States and tariffs can do a LOT of damage. Trump knows these tariffs are a huge bargaining chip, but it’s the type of chip you can only use to this degree once. And he’s cashing it in for… his own political clout. The natural response to this that we’re already seeing the beginning of, is countries restructuring their industry to be less reliant on the U.S. which will ultimately do far more damage to the U.S. than the U.S. can do to other countries. And once they’ve all done that, there won’t be a good reason to ramp that trade up again.

As an American this is going to suck a lot for us, but right now everything Trump is doing sucks for us. The shame of it is that no matter how bad it gets, I can’t realistically be mad at Canada, Mexico, or all of Europe over it. What other option have they been given?

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I can’t realistically be mad at Canada, Mexico, or all of Europe over it.

If anything, they haven't condemned our fascist government enough. I think they're still largely in shock. Hopefully they'll get in the groove of the new world order without the US sooner rather than later.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If anything, they haven’t condemned our fascist government enough. I think they’re still largely in shock.

There's no sense in pointless bluster. Much is happening behind the scenes.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 9 points 5 days ago

They need to kick the US out of all those military bases around the world.